Originally Posted by RegularGuy
You can buy bikes at WalMart with QR hubs now. I'm sure that every newbie who takes a bike home from Chuck's shop is instructed in the correct use of a quick release skewer. Unfortunately the same isn't true of a big box store. I'm not sure that the trained monkeys they have assembling the bikes know how to work a QR properly.
Quick releases are safe when used right. At our club century, I've seen quite a few riders who did not know how to use them right. I've showed them how to do it.
The guys that assemble the bikes at my local Wal-Mart are trained by someone who attended Barnett's. Many, I won't say all cause I don't know that, of the people who assemble bikes at Walmart are trained by or are certified mechanics because Walmart has a highly paid legal staff that understands liability issues. Much of Walmarts bike assembly and repair work is contracted out to trained professionals for the same reasons. Of course, if they're just trained monkeys, then what does that make the other people that work at Walmart? Probably no Lutherans (just to pick a group at random) work at Walmart, cause then we would have to call all Lutherans trained monkeys. It's a slippery slope. This thread is about sermonizing, isn't it?!? So it is good to hear that you're at least showing someone the right way to do it, RegularGuy.
..."I've showed"...? Is that kinda like..."I done did"...?